Microsoft Certification Job Trends in the South East

Microsoft Certification
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Microsoft Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 175 136
Rank change year-on-year +34 -39 +51
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft Certification 143 141 160
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 1.66% 1.25% 2.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.52% 3.74% 5.08%
Number of salaries quoted 86 75 110
10th Percentile £27,375 £25,750 £21,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £28,500 £28,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -13.98%
75th Percentile £56,250 £63,750 £56,525
90th Percentile £67,500 £75,900 £70,000
England median annual salary £35,000 £45,107 £50,000
% change year-on-year -22.41% -9.79% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

Microsoft Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,164 3,768 3,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 36.71% 33.43% 41.16%
Number of salaries quoted 1,576 1,824 1,890
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £43,750 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +0.96%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +4.55%

Microsoft Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microsoft Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Microsoft Certification job vacancy trend in the South East

Microsoft Certification
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Microsoft Certification

Microsoft Certification
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microsoft Certification in the South East over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Microsoft Certification in the South East

Microsoft Certification
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Certification within the South East region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Kent +64 46 £55,750 - 21
Thames Valley +10 42 £35,000 +27.27% 97
Surrey +16 25 £39,500 +1.94% 13
Buckinghamshire +23 19 £35,000 -36.36% 22
Hampshire +1 19 £37,500 -31.82% 21
Oxfordshire +20 14 £28,500 +3.64% 10
Berkshire +7 9 £44,000 -0.40% 69
East Sussex +7 6 £59,000 +35.63% 7
West Sussex +3 5 £50,000 +36.99% 16
Microsoft Certification
England

Microsoft Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 19 (13.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (4.90%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.10%) IIS
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) WordPress
Applications
1 48 (33.57%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (4.20%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 58 (40.56%) Microsoft 365
2 56 (39.16%) AWS
3 55 (38.46%) Azure
4 12 (8.39%) Entra ID
4 12 (8.39%) GCP
5 11 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 10 (6.99%) Dynamics 365
7 9 (6.29%) Power Automate
8 8 (5.59%) PowerApps
9 7 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (4.20%) GitHub
11 5 (3.50%) IaaS
12 4 (2.80%) Copilot Studio
12 4 (2.80%) PaaS
13 3 (2.10%) Azure Data Factory
13 3 (2.10%) Azure Sentinel
13 3 (2.10%) Azure Storage
13 3 (2.10%) Mimecast
14 2 (1.40%) SaaS
15 1 (0.70%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 21 (14.69%) DNS
2 19 (13.29%) DHCP
3 16 (11.19%) Firewall
4 12 (8.39%) TCP/IP
5 10 (6.99%) Internet
6 9 (6.29%) Remote Desktop
7 7 (4.90%) VLAN
8 6 (4.20%) NAS
8 6 (4.20%) SAN
8 6 (4.20%) VPN
9 5 (3.50%) Intranet
9 5 (3.50%) WAN
10 4 (2.80%) IP Telephony
10 4 (2.80%) LAN
10 4 (2.80%) SNMP
10 4 (2.80%) VoIP
11 3 (2.10%) Network Security
11 3 (2.10%) STUN
11 3 (2.10%) VoLTE
11 3 (2.10%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (9.79%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.90%) Power BI
3 3 (2.10%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (2.10%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (2.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (1.40%) Metadata
4 2 (1.40%) Oracle Database
4 2 (1.40%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (11.19%) JIRA
2 6 (4.20%) Git
General
1 98 (68.53%) Social Skills
2 38 (26.57%) French Language
2 38 (26.57%) Swedish Language
3 9 (6.29%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (6.29%) Finance
3 9 (6.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 9 (6.29%) Telecoms
4 6 (4.20%) Multimedia
5 5 (3.50%) Legal
6 3 (2.10%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.10%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (1.40%) General Ledger
7 2 (1.40%) Law
8 1 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.70%) Military
Job Titles
1 48 (33.57%) Analyst
2 32 (22.38%) IT Support
3 29 (20.28%) Service Analyst
3 29 (20.28%) Service Desk Analyst
4 21 (14.69%) Senior
5 20 (13.99%) Support Engineer
6 14 (9.79%) IT Engineer
7 13 (9.09%) IT Support Engineer
7 13 (9.09%) Support Analyst
8 12 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (7.69%) Administrator
9 11 (7.69%) Lead
9 11 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (6.99%) IT Administrator
11 9 (6.29%) Senior Service Desk Analyst
11 9 (6.29%) Service Desk Team Leader
11 9 (6.29%) Support Technician
11 9 (6.29%) Team Leader
12 6 (4.20%) IT Technician
12 6 (4.20%) Trainee
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (6.99%) CSS
1 10 (6.99%) HTML
2 6 (4.20%) React
3 4 (2.80%) .NET
3 4 (2.80%) Web Services
4 3 (2.10%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (2.10%) Node.js
5 2 (1.40%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.70%) Azure Blueprints
6 1 (0.70%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (6.99%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (6.29%) Driving Licence
3 7 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (3.50%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.80%) Blackberry
5 4 (2.80%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.10%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.10%) Cyber Defence
6 3 (2.10%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.40%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.70%) CMDB
8 1 (0.70%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.70%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.70%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.70%) PKI
8 1 (0.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 55 (38.46%) Windows
2 23 (16.08%) Linux
3 16 (11.19%) Windows Server
4 10 (6.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (6.29%) Windows 10
6 3 (2.10%) VMS
6 3 (2.10%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.40%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.70%) Android
8 1 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (30.07%) ITIL
2 42 (29.37%) ITSM
3 34 (23.78%) Customer Service
4 33 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (22.38%) Mentoring
6 22 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 22 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
7 20 (13.99%) Performance Metrics
8 14 (9.79%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (9.09%) Service Management
10 12 (8.39%) Computer Science
10 12 (8.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 11 (7.69%) Inventory Management
12 10 (6.99%) DevOps
13 9 (6.29%) Analytics
13 9 (6.29%) Business Continuity
13 9 (6.29%) Coaching
13 9 (6.29%) Conflict Resolution
13 9 (6.29%) Knowledge Management
13 9 (6.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (11.19%) PowerShell
2 14 (9.79%) Python
3 12 (8.39%) SQL
4 10 (6.99%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.59%) Bash
5 8 (5.59%) C#
6 5 (3.50%) X++
7 3 (2.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 3 (2.10%) Perl
8 2 (1.40%) C
8 2 (1.40%) R
Qualifications
1 66 (46.15%) MCSE
2 64 (44.76%) Degree
3 40 (27.97%) AWS Certification
4 21 (14.69%) A+ Certification
5 18 (12.59%) Azure Certification
6 16 (11.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 15 (10.49%) Cisco Certification
8 14 (9.79%) MCP
9 12 (8.39%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (7.69%) CCNA
11 9 (6.29%) MCSA
11 9 (6.29%) SC Cleared
11 9 (6.29%) Security Cleared
12 6 (4.20%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
13 5 (3.50%) HND
13 5 (3.50%) Master's Degree
14 4 (2.80%) CCNP
14 4 (2.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 4 (2.80%) RHCE
15 3 (2.10%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (15.38%) QA
2 6 (4.20%) GDPR
3 2 (1.40%) SLA
4 1 (0.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 43 (30.07%) Active Directory
2 22 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (6.29%) vSphere
4 5 (3.50%) Firmware
4 5 (3.50%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.80%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (2.10%) GPFS
6 3 (2.10%) Lustre
6 3 (2.10%) NFS
7 2 (1.40%) Docker
8 1 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (2.10%) CASB
2 3 (2.10%) QRadar
3 2 (1.40%) Ansible
3 2 (1.40%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (1.40%) SCCM
3 2 (1.40%) Terraform
4 1 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.70%) AirWatch
4 1 (0.70%) Podman
4 1 (0.70%) SCOM
4 1 (0.70%) vCenter Server
4 1 (0.70%) WSUS
Vendors
1 138 (96.50%) Microsoft
2 37 (25.87%) VMware
3 29 (20.28%) ServiceNow
4 19 (13.29%) Cisco
5 7 (4.90%) Google
6 6 (4.20%) Veeam
7 5 (3.50%) Aruba
7 5 (3.50%) HP
7 5 (3.50%) Sage
8 4 (2.80%) Citrix
8 4 (2.80%) McAfee
9 3 (2.10%) Forcepoint
9 3 (2.10%) LogRhythm
9 3 (2.10%) Oracle
9 3 (2.10%) Qualys
9 3 (2.10%) Red Hat
9 3 (2.10%) SolarWinds
10 2 (1.40%) Commvault
11 1 (0.70%) NetApp
11 1 (0.70%) Veritas